Worthless as wither’d weeds.
EMILY BRONTEI gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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